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I don't own any of the characters; I'm not using this for money, yatsa, yatsa, and yatsa.
Claimer:
I do however own the character of Padme Amidala Skywalker (I don't own the names, just the character), Gaeity Solo, Tanner-Jules Solo, and Jennelle Solo. (I know I'm not that inventive.)
New Characters:
Padme Amidala Skywalker (Ali-Lyn)–the only surviving child of Luke Skywalker. She's 17 yrs old.
Gaeity Solo–the eldest child of Han Solo and Princess Leia Solo. She's 15 yrs old.
Tanner-Jules Solo – Gaeity's twin brother. He's 15 yrs old.
Jennelle Solo–Han & Leia's youngest child. She's 2 yrs old.
Master Carime Liepti – Padme (Ali-Lyn)'s master/teacher.
Star Wars: Beginning Again
Part Three
Outside the Throne Room of the Naboo Palace
Ali-Lyn looked at her master, and then heard the sound of a lightsabre. Carime turned to face where the sound had come from – There stood Anakin Benjamin Skywalker.
Ali-Lyn looked her brother over. Anakin's dull borwn hair was long and it hung about his face. Underneath his long bangs, Anakin's once shinning hazel eyes were a dull gray, and his usually tanned skin was a sickly white. He was dressed in a tight, black pilot suit, like her father usually wore, and attached to his suit was a black cape.
'He's Darth Vader.' Ali-Lyn thought, stunned by his appearance.
On instinct, Carime reached for her own lightsabre, as did Ali-Lyn. They extended the lazers, and waited for Anakin to advance.
The New Jedi Council on Coruscant
Luke stood alone in the room usually occupied by the senior members. He looked out the window, as Leia came in behind him.
"Luke?"
Luke turned to face his sister, "Yes, Leia?"
Leia looked down at her feet. Carime and Ali-Lyn had barely been on Naboo twelve hours when they encountered Anakin – And now Ali-Lyn was badly injured. "We just received a call from Carime."
"Oh."
"She said they…they fought with Anakin. Ali-Lyn's hurt, but not very badly. Carime is on her way back, and she's bringing Queen Dikay just until the Palace is secure. Carime thinks Anakin was after Ali-Lyn." Leia said, as gently and softly as she could.
Luke looked Leia in her eyes. Leia was amazed to feel no fear or sadness or anger comeing from him. Usually he would fill with an emotion that would overwhelm him, and then it would disapate – but not now.
"He was after her." Luke sighed, "He won't rest until she's out of his plans. Ali-Lyn's the only one who can stop him."
Gaeity and T.J. appeared in the doorway. Han was behind her, holding Jennelle. The four walked over to the other two adults.
Luke looked at his sister, brother-in-law, nieces, and nephew. Gaeity and T.J. were just two years younger then Ali-Lyn and Anakin. He looked at the family – There was a mother, a father, and children. Then Luke looked at the picture he kept next to his chair. It was just Ali-Lyn and himself. No Padme Elo-aura or Anakin Benjamin. The picture next to it, however, was Ali-Lyn and Carime. He smiled – Carime was like Ali-Lyn's sister, and they always were happy together. "Ali-Lyn will be okay." He said to the group, "Carime won't allow anything to happen to her."
The Skywalker quarters in the New Jedi Council building on Coruscant
The next morning
Ali-Lyn was laying in her bed, talking to one of her stuffed kittens, when Luke came in to check on her. She had been asleep since Carime had brought her back, and he was glad to hear her soft whispers. She looked at her father, "Papa." She reached up to hug him. "Papa." She repeated, as Luke put his arms around her. He rocked her back and forth, both aware of what must be done now.
Anakin was too far-gone. If he and his new followers became too bold and tried to attack The New Jedi Council or the New Senate, Anakin and his Master would have to be…
Carime watched from the doorway. Ali-Lyn would never be able to kill her own twin brother – even if he was a member of the dark side.
Leia came up behind Carime, "Carime, May I speak to you for a moment?"
Carime followed her former master down the hall and to the door leading out to a wrap-around balcony.
"Queen Dikay wishes to return to Naboo. However, Anakin could still be there, and the only one who can sense him is Ali-Lyn. But Ali-Lyn can't travel just yet."
Carime nodded her head, "I will talk to the queen. I'm sure she will understand once the situation is explained."
"Thank you." Leia said, bowing to her. She went back into the hall via the door, leaving Carime to think.
The VIP room at the NJC
Queen Dikay had listened patiently as Carime explained the danger Anakin Benjamin Skywalker now presented. She remembered the tale of Darth Vader – how he went from being Anakin Skywalker, the husband of Queen Amidala, to being the worst enemy of the universe.
"I am sorry that our affairs with Anakin have hindered your return to Naboo. Master Solo has asked that you stay here until Ali-Lyn has had time to recover. She's the only one can sense him without the force. It won't be more that a day or so." Carime said, hopeing the Queen would understand.
Queen Dikay thought for a moment, "I understand your place on this matter. As soon as Ali-Lyn may return to helping us, I would like to leave."
"Yes, my liege."
Carime turned around and left the room in high spirits. She knew that Anakin was alive inside that shroud of anger and fear. He didn't really want to kill his twin. He could never do it. Carime hoped he realized it, too.
The Solo's quarters in the NJC building
Gaeity picked Jennelle up from on the floor and put her on a chair. On the floor, T.J. was looking at holopictures. Ali-Lyn and Anakin had been so close. It was as if nothing could have destroyed them when they were together. Losing Anakin had changed everyone's lives dramatically. Luke and Padme Elo-aura had been 35 and 34 – And both were then burdened by the fact that they only had one child left to raise on the side of good.
Then Anakin killed his own mother…
T.J. watched Anakin battle his aunt from the other side of the room. Ali-Lyn was covering him with her body, to protect him from Anakin. Ali-Lyn had her lightsabre drawn, waiting for her chance to use her most recent training.
"Anakin. Stop this." Padme Elo-aura said, trying to coax her only son down.
"Please, Anakin." Ali-Lyn said, hopeing it wouldn't come to drastic measures.
Anakin lunged, and the lazer slid through Padme Elo-aura and came out her back.
"No!" Ali-Lyn screamed and ran after her brother, who fought her back – until his new master appeared.
"T.J. Coruscant to T.J." Gaeity said, swinging her hand in front of her brother's eyes.
T.J. looked at his twin sister, "It's not fair, you know."
"What's not fair?"
"The force allowed Aunt Paddy and Mom to have twins. I have you and you have me, but Ali-Lyn doesn't have Anakin anymore."
Gaeity looked at her feet. T.J. was right. It wasn't fair.
The balcony deck on top of the NJC
Ali-Lyn stood on the top of the New Jedi Council again. She was supposed to be downstairs with Carime, explaining the incident with her brother. Carime had understood Ali-Lyn's reluctance to go for the moment, and had instructed her to meditate – so she could clear her head of all the emotions that could lead her down the same path as Anakin. However, the setting sun had colored the city a brillent shade of pink – Ali-Lyn's favorite color – and she had sat down to watch. Ali-Lyn began to speak to herself, unaware that Gaeity was watching her.
"Mom. I know that you have become one with the force, so I know you can hear me. I am lost. I know Carime should be guideing me right now, but I have to ask you. I can't kill Anakin. He's my twin – my flesh and blood. He was like my clone. What should I do now?"
Gaeity emeged from the shadows, "You should do what's right."
Ali-Lyn smiled. Gaeity always had this way of saying the right thing at the right time – even if no one wanted to hear it. "Where's T.J.?"
"Watching Jennelle." Gaeity said, looking her older cousin in the eyes, "Ali-Lyn, do you want to be a Jedi Knight?"
Ali-Lyn smiled, "I know what you're thinking, Gaeity. No, that isn't why I'm continually late for my evaluations. It's because when I do become a Knight, I will have to go up against Anakin at some point. He's been trained very well, but I could still beat him. I just can't kill him. I guess it runs in the family." She joked. Luke had many times over told Ali-Lyn about her grandfather. Her father hadn't killed Darth Vader because he felt the good in him. Ali-Lyn hoped Anakin still had hope in him – or else…
Gaeity looked over the railing of the balcony. Hues of dark pink, purple, and blue were bouncing around the city's silver walls. "Why do you like being up here?"
"When me and Anak were little, this was our place. Mom would bring us up here sometimes, and talk about Naboo and Grandma. We loved the height, so much of the time it was he and I watching the sunrise or the sunset. I've always felt closer to the force here then anywhere else."
"Maybe this is where Aunt Padme Elo-aura's life force dwells – in the place where she was happy with both her children."
"Maybe." Ali-Lyn said, putting her arm around Gaeity's shoulders, "Maybe."
The New Jedi Council
"Whoever's trained Anakin has some past in the Jedi." Carime said, waiting for her superiors to let her continue.
"Actually, there's only one person in the last thirty years who's had enough training to train Anakin this way." Ali-Lyn interrupted, walking in. She bowed to the senior members, and then continued, "Master Ory Corellise."
There was a murmur for a moment. No one had ever thought of Master Corellise.
"Master Corellise does have the training." Luke said, waiting for Ali-Lyn's argument.
Ali-Lyn continued, "Master Corellise also disappeared the day Anakin did. Who else could've propositioned him? Master Corellise was Anakin's master for two years before he dissappeared. He would have had ample time to ask him and make him bitter over something, before Anak turned to the dark side." Ali-Lyn reverted to her nickname for Anakin.
Luke watched his daughter for a moment. The pieces had just been thrown together, and she could feel that the simplest of anwsers was the anwser to the most difficult of questions.
"Did no one think of this?" She asked, hopeing someone had – that she hadn't fit the pieces together on her own.
"I did, Ali-Lyn." Leia said, anwsering her niece.
"I'm going back to Naboo. This is going to end. I love him, but Papa spent ten years helping to rebuild the Republic. I will not let Anak and Corellise destory it the same way Darth Vader and the Emperor did the old Republic." Ali-Lyn said, as Gaeity and T.J. walked in.
"We are going to help, too. Anakin and Corellise have to be stopped, Masters. We will do it." T.J. said, looking at his cousin.
Luke watced the three determined teenagers. Ali-Lyn had placed herself on a path – the right one. She chose the path to protect the Republic and the Jedi - even if she had to kill her own twin. Gaeity and T.J. were young – and placeing them on the same path.
NJC docking bay
For the second time in a week, Ali-Lyn sat down in one of the chairs of the starship. Gaeity and T.J. were right behind her.
"Do you think you'll be able to kill him, if it comes to it?" Gaeity asked, as the pilot powered up the ship.
"A Jedi does what's right. I will do if it comes to that. I just hope it doesn't." Ali-Lyn anwsered, "Corellise, however, could train another apperentice."
T.J. looked at the two girls, "I will take care of Corellise."
The girls nodded, then Ali-Lyn stood up to go find Carime. They were going to need a plan.
Naboo Palace
The next day
Ali-Lyn had wandered the halls of the Naboo Palace all night. She hadn't felt, heard, or seen Anakin the entire time – neither had the others.
Ali-Lyn took out her communicator, "Gaeity."
"Yes?"
"I haven't seen him. I'm going to go back…" Ali-Lyn froze. Anakin was here – and Corellise was right behind him.
"Ali-Lyn?" Gaeity asked, senseing the sudden disturbance, "Ali-Lyn, are you okay?"
"I'm fine." Ali-Lyn put her communicator away, and drew her lightsabre. She would fight them herself.
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This ends part three.
Cassie Jamie
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